Kilch, also spelled kilchen or kilchenfisch, is a term in
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
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and
Swiss German
Swiss German (Standard German: , gsw, Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no defined orthography for any of them, many different spelling ...
for these species of
freshwater whitefish:
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Coregonus bavaricus
''Coregonus bavaricus'', the Ammersee kilch, is a species of freshwater whitefish endemic to Lake Ammersee in the German state of Upper Bavaria. A small, silver-colored fish, it typically lives between deep, though shallower in the summer mont ...
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Coregonus pidschian
The humpback whitefish (''Coregonus pidschian''), also referred to as the bottom whitefish, the Arctic whitefishKottelat, M. and Freyhof, J. 2007. Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland. or the pidschian ...
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Coregonus lavaretus
''Coregonus lavaretus'' is a species of freshwater whitefish, in the family Salmonidae. It is the type species of its genus ''Coregonus''.
There are widely different concepts about the delimitation of the species ''Coregonus lavaretus'' and abou ...
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Coregonus gutturosus
''Coregonus gutturosus'', the Lake Constance whitefish, is an extinct species of whitefish in the salmon family Salmonidae. It was formerly found only in deep areas of Lake Constance in the Alps.
Extinction
''Coregonus gutturosus'' was a deep ...
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